Abstract
The book is a contribution to the contemporary debate about fiction film as a medium of culturally-mediated memory. Film is seen here as a work that offers both the image of the era in which it was made and the depiction of the past events to which its plot refers.
From these two perspectives are analyzed four Czech (Czechoslovak) fiction films related to the post-war expulsion of German-speaking population and the subsequent settlement of border areas. The comparison of films from different periods makes it possible to capture the development of the relations of Czech society to these historical events and the transformation of the meanings with which this problematic part of our history has been connected.